Le premier volume des illustrations de la Gaulle belgique, antiquitez du pays de Haynnau et de la gra[n]d cite de Belges : a present dicte Bavay dont procedent les chaussees de Brunehault. Et de plusieurs princes q[ui] ont regne et fonde plusieurs villes et citez audit pays et autres choses singulieres et dignes de memoire advenues dura[n]t leurs regnes jusques au duc Philippes de Bourgongne, dernier decede [...].

3 parts in 1 vol., folio: [7]-cxlii [= 141]-[1], [4]-lxxxii, [6]-cviii ff. (holes in title, partly underl., some dampstaining in the gutter and the margins, margins at the end partly underl., tears clumsily repaired, last printed leaf cut out and pasted on mod. f.).

Contemp. sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (corners def., covers scratched, def. on head and tail).

First edition of the Middle French translation by the Franciscan Jacques de Guise (1340-1399) of the "Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannoniae", and supplementary chronicles. Ill. with 2 full-page woodcuts figuring a presentation scene with Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy in part I (often repeated but not in our copy), a French King in his Parliament in part III, and a large woodcut figuring a copyist in his scriptorium in part III, numerous initials, some criblé, in different sizes. Titles within elaborate woodcut border with name of Galliot du Pré; titles of parts I-II in red and black. Printer's marks of Regnault (part I) and Du Pré (part III). Printed in Gothic type, in 2 col.
Ref. BP16 106707 (I-II) & 106973 (III). - Bechtel G-392. - De Troeyer 195 (I). - Mortimer, French, 268. - Renouard, ICP, IV:178 (I-II) & 440 (III). - Pettegree (FB) 24567, 24568, 24570. - STC French, Suppl., 40. - Not in Adams.
Prov. M.A. Sufsenaire (arm. bookpl.). - Jos. Wageneckher (ms. entry). - Ms. libr. entry.